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00:20 Welcome again to Digital Disconnect.
00:22 I'm your host Scott Ritsema 00:24 and I'll tell you: episode 11, The Lust Trap, is 00:27 one of the most urgent and pressing issues 00:30 in this whole series. The #1 media addiction there is 00:33 is online pornography. 00:35 So a really important disclaimer as we begin: 00:38 this would be a sensitive topic, an age-appropriate topic. 00:42 Be aware that we will be discussing these very mature 00:45 issues and these very important issues 00:48 in a spiritual way and in a Bible-centered way. 00:51 So I want to also mention as a matter of disclaimer 00:54 most of the research and discus- sion on the online pornography 00:57 epidemic and addiction is geared toward what's happening 01:01 among men in our society. 01:04 And we're well aware, of course, this plagues both genders. 01:07 However, so much of the documentation and the addiction 01:12 recovery assistance is geared toward men 01:15 and so much of what will be said in this session 01:17 will be with that sort of intended audience. 01:20 However, everybody listening in will be able to benefit 01:23 very much from the principles that we will cover... 01:26 even though a lot of it has to do with the male brain. 01:28 I want to very much begin with prayer in this session 01:31 as we do every time. But chains of addiction are 01:34 fastened upon people, and they can be broken free 01:37 by the power of the Living God. 01:38 So will you pray with me as we begin? 01:41 Father in heaven, we are so thankful 01:43 that we can come to You claiming the Bible promise 01:46 right out of the gates here that thanks be to God 01:49 who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 01:52 And that is Your promise to us that we own and claim 01:56 right now in our own lives. 01:58 In Jesus' name we pray, Amen. 02:01 I want to begin with a story from the Bible. 02:03 Are you familiar with the story of Balaam? 02:06 In Numbers 25 Israel was about to enter into Canaan. 02:10 They're right on the border. 02:12 You've got the Jordan River. Israel's about to go 02:14 into the Promised Land. Well, Satan had something 02:17 in mind, didn't he? He wanted to get a curse upon Israel 02:19 and prevent them from doing God's will. 02:22 So Balaam was sent out to curse the Israelites. 02:24 How did that go? It didn't go very well for Balak 02:27 who had hired Balaam to do that. 02:30 Balaam only blessed Israel. 02:31 So you can imagine Satan just wringing his hands 02:34 going: "How can I prevent this redemptive move? " 02:37 Ah, the lightbulb goes off in his evil, genius mind 02:41 and the Moabite women are sent in. 02:44 You read at the beginning of Numbers chapter 25 that 02:47 they entice the Israelites into sexual immorality. 02:50 There's a statement in a book called... in a publication 02:53 called Review and Herald that I want to read to you. 02:56 It says now here in the last days: 03:32 This is a clue about what's coming in the last days. 03:36 And you don't even need the reference there to know. 03:39 Look around us. We're living in a hyper sexualized 03:42 21st century culture that is meant to ensnare men 03:45 on their weak points of character in this area. 03:48 In fact, Christian men are really struggling with this 03:51 today. According to the data even men in the church 03:54 who want to pursue God 50% of them when surveyed 03:57 admit that they are addicted is the word used in the survey... 04:01 addicted to pornography. 04:03 70% admit they have viewed it in the previous year. 04:06 There was a Canadian researcher who launched a study. 04:09 He wanted to see how the brains of young adult 04:13 men would be impacted by showing them their first 04:17 imagery of a pornographic nature. 04:18 What a horrible study that would have been 04:20 if it had transpired. It didn't transpire. 04:23 The researcher could not find a single young adult male 04:27 who had not already been viewing these things 04:29 so that he couldn't carry out his study of showing it to them 04:32 and seeing how it changed the brain from the start. 04:34 The conclusions he came up with were reported in the 04:37 UK Telegraph newspaper and the journalist wrote - 04:40 quoting the researcher - 04:43 "These were the findings of my study: 04:45 guys who do not watch pornography do not exist. " 04:48 'Cause he couldn't find a single one who had not already been 04:50 watching. A little bit of a hyperbolic statement there 04:53 of course because there are many who are gaining the victory. 04:57 But he couldn't find a single one who hadn't been viewing it 04:59 showing the serious nature of this addiction. 05:02 The circuits of the brain are kind of like pathways 05:06 in the forest. Have you ever heard of this before? 05:08 The concept of you're going on a hike. 05:10 You're going on a trail. Maybe it's not a very well-worn 05:13 trail and you're kind of having a hard time following 05:16 where does it go. What happens over time 05:18 as person after person walks that trail? 05:20 Well the trail becomes more well defined. 05:23 It becomes wider; it becomes easier to walk, doesn't it? 05:27 Well, the brain pathways are the very same way. 05:30 The circuits that we utilize, the thoughts and the patterns 05:34 of thought, the words, the habits, the actions 05:38 that we engage in form pathways that become habitual 05:42 as the neurological pathways become wider by use. 05:46 I want to quote a great neurological researcher 05:50 and addiction recovery specialist. 05:53 His name is Dr. Wm. Struthers and he writes in his book 05:55 Wired for Intimacy: 06:39 That reminds me of another quote that I read 06:41 in the book Desire of Ages. 06:42 And it says that when we become submissive to 06:45 God and His Spirit's leading 06:47 that we can get to the point where we are just carrying out 06:50 our own impulse in doing His will. 06:52 Can we really get there? 06:54 I want to start out with that great hope from science 06:56 and from inspiration that will give us the promise of victory 07:00 because if the brain is powerful enough 07:02 to get you addicted to a behavior 07:04 'cause you went down that corrupted pathway 07:06 well guess what? The brain is just as powerful 07:08 to get you addicted to a new behavior, a new pathway. 07:12 Listen to Dr. Struthers one more time. He says: 07:40 That is a beautiful promise! You know, it says in Romans 07:43 chapter 6 verse 16 basically we're either going to be slaves 07:48 to sin or slaves to righteousness. 07:50 I want to be so compulsively obedient 07:52 that in carrying out God's will I'm just doing my own impulse 07:56 that has become the habit and the joy of life. 07:59 Now why is it such a deep and difficult habit among so many 08:04 men in our society? Well there's a statement from 08:07 a book called Mind, Character, & Personality. 08:09 I'm going to quote that book and refer to it a number of times 08:12 'cause it's a fantastic work on understanding the mind 08:15 and the character. And it says that moral principle 08:19 is exceedingly weak when it conflicts with established 08:23 habit. Most people who are engaged in the disgusting habits 08:27 are abhorred by it. When they look back on what 08:31 they've done... "Ah, that's terrible! 08:33 It's morally impure. It's wrong; it's a violation 08:37 of the commandments. " Well there's an established habit 08:42 that is conflicting and confronting the moral principle. 08:44 And the established habit for so many is gaining the mastery 08:48 in the addicted person. 08:50 And it's much like a drug. Listen to what the scientists 08:52 are saying about this. Dr. Jeffrey Satinover 08:55 stated the following: 09:07 And here's another one: 09:29 Now what you're about to see 09:32 is one of the most sobering and eye-opening brain scans 09:35 that I've ever been confronted with. 09:37 I want to have on the screen the graphic 09:39 of a normal brain. Under a SPECT scan this is a good looking 09:43 brain compared now to the brain of a pornography addict. 09:48 Look at the prefrontal region 09:50 there at the bottom of the image 09:51 and the holes and areas of no functionality. 09:54 You know there's another statement in Mind, Character, 09:57 and Personality that says the sensitive nerves of the brain 10:01 have lost their healthy tone when people engage in 10:03 a morbid excitation to gratify sensual indulgence. 10:08 It literally is changing the brain structure of the addict. 10:12 This one was even more eye-opening to me. 10:14 This is a cocaine addict's brain. 10:16 You can see from a different angle this time 10:18 but a whole bunch of damage in that. 10:21 This is a pornography addict's brain. 10:23 Which one is worse? 10:26 The Bible says in I Corinthians 6:18 10:28 "He who commits sin sexually - 10:31 sexual immorality - sins against his own body. " 10:34 We are literally altering the brain 10:38 in ways we maybe never knew till recent research has brought 10:41 this eye-opening information to us. 10:44 So we take this ultra-seriously. 10:46 But at the same time some people see these images 10:49 with such horror and such shock 10:52 and somebody's been engaged in this behavior 10:54 and they go: "I've ruined myself spiritually! 10:57 I'm lost forever. " You're discouraged. 10:59 Don't be discouraged. The devil is the accuser you see. 11:03 He wants to get people in that state of self-loathing, 11:06 self-deprecating. "I've been cut off from God. 11:09 I'm lost. " No, no, no, no. Those are the words 11:11 of a liar, a deceiver. He does not speak the truth. 11:15 The Bible speaks the truth and the Bible says... 11:18 Well, let's take the prodigal son story. 11:20 How does the father feel about the son 11:23 in his rebellion? In his: "I want my inheritance 11:27 now. I'm out of here. " And he goes off and wastes it 11:30 on prostitutes, doesn't he? 11:32 Does the father say: "Good riddance! I don't want 11:34 anything to do with him? " No, 11:36 after his son comes to his senses 11:38 he says to himself: "I could at least be a servant 11:41 hired by my father. " 11:43 And he comes back and he's humbling himself. 11:45 He's getting ready to say "I've sinned against heaven 11:48 and against you. " But even before he gets that 11:51 confession out what is the orientation 11:53 of the father at that point? 11:55 Before the son gets there when he is yet a long way off 11:59 the father is standing toward him. He sees him. 12:03 He begins running toward the son. 12:05 That's God's attitude toward us. 12:08 While we were still sinners Christ died for us. 12:11 Have you heard the gospel before? 12:12 Hear it again! I know so many times we want to 12:15 have such a high standard and we go: "Oh, I don't meet 12:18 that standard. " And the devil grabs on that 12:20 well-intentioned thing to push us down. 12:23 God says: "I'm going raise the standard 12:25 and raise you right up to it. " 12:27 Because then the father throws the robe of the righteousness 12:30 of Jesus Christ around that son and he embraces him. 12:34 That's God's attitude toward you. 12:37 So never let the accuser make us think: 12:40 "Oh, you know, I can't gain the victory. " 12:42 "Oh I can't be forgiven; I've sinned one too many times. " 12:45 The Bible actually says a righteous man may fall 7 times. 12:48 Have you read that in the Proverbs? 12:49 A righteous man may fall 7 times. 12:52 And this isn't to excuse sin 12:55 but it says he can get back up. 12:58 ALL have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God 13:01 and Jesus came to save sinners. 13:04 There's a wonderful quotation that I love to share 13:06 with audiences when people are feeling discouraged. 13:08 There's a statement that says 13:11 "Satan may say to you: 'Oh, you're just a sinner. ' 13:14 You say back to him: 'Jesus came to save sinners. ' " 13:18 So there you go... checkmate. 13:21 That's what His name is: Yeshua, Yahweh, salvation. 13:24 He says: "I did not come to condemn but to save. " 13:28 And when we sit there with the self-loathing and the flogging 13:32 of ourselves and ruminating over our failures 13:34 you know what we're doing actually? 13:36 This is the devil's terrible scheme. 13:37 He gets you cut off from God and discouraged and at a dark 13:40 place of the muck and the mire AND you are actually widening 13:43 the very circuits of the misbehaviors you engaged in 13:47 'cause you're thinking about it. 13:48 And that's exactly what we want to NOT do. 13:51 God says: "I separate the sin from you as far as the east 13:54 is from the west. I blot the sin out of the books. 13:57 I can blot it out of you, too. " 13:59 So if we start thinking and thinking and thinking 14:01 and talking and talking about our own sins, 14:04 it actually reinforces those sins. 14:07 There was a T-shirt a while back: SINNER. 14:10 Well, Jesus wants to say: "I've got a new T-shirt 14:13 with a new name written on a white stone in heaven 14:15 that I'm going to give to you 14:16 and it says NEW CREATION. " 14:18 That's an even better theology. 14:19 Yes, we are all sinners but Jesus came to save us 14:22 and He's making us anew. 14:24 Now I thought about this issue of intimacy 14:26 as I was reading Dr. Struther's book Wired for Intimacy 14:29 and it made me think about the research that's been done 14:32 that men who struggle with these lust issues are more likely 14:36 to have come from emotionally disengaged homes. 14:41 It's perhaps that you're starved for intimacy 14:44 and you bite at the first thing that poses as intimacy 14:47 even though it's a total fraud and counterfeit. 14:49 It's kind of like when you're starving for food. 14:51 Say you're on a long drive and you haven't had anything 14:54 to eat and you walk into the gas station. 14:55 That's not a good place by the way to get a good healthy meal 14:59 in most cases. And so you go up and down the aisles 15:01 and you see the Twinkie. It's like: "Aaahh... 15:05 come and grab me and gobble me down. " 15:07 Wait. You know a Twinkie is not good for you. 15:09 Nothing against Hostess but this is just pure sugar, 15:13 isn't it? Can we do better than that? 15:16 If you are especially hungry and starved 15:19 and you're not in your right mind, you might make the... 15:22 the bad choice to eat something unhealthy. 15:24 But let's change the analogy. 15:26 What if you have just eaten a good, healthy meal? 15:29 A big salad and you know lots of good healthy stuff 15:32 and you're full. 15:33 Does that Twinkie have the same allure and pull to you? 15:37 You see, if we are fulfilled spiritually, relationally 15:41 with the intimate relational connectedness that 15:44 God has created for us 15:46 then the attractions of the counterfeit "intimacy" 15:50 out there don't have as much of a draw. 15:53 God is a God of intimacy, is He not? 15:55 Father, Son, Holy Spirit for ages past. 15:58 Creating man in His image. 16:00 "It's not good that man be alone. " 16:02 Unity: the combining of man and woman. 16:04 And if you're not in a marital situation 16:06 friendship, the brotherhood of the church of God. 16:09 The family of God. Some people are not in a family right now 16:12 but you're in a family. It's the church of God! 16:15 Jesus is the elder brother in our faith it says in Hebrews. 16:18 "He was not ashamed to call us brethren. " 16:20 You see all the relational language? The Father 16:22 and the family of God. 16:25 If we can be fulfilled in those areas, 16:28 we can tackle this with greater promise, with greater hope. 16:32 And so seek those relationships and know that we can't live 16:35 this life in an isolated way. 16:37 I want to share with you some- thing called the lust cascade. 16:40 Some people in the scientific community have referred to 16:42 the stress cascade. I want to coin a new term I guess: 16:45 it's the lust cascade: the practice that the brain goes 16:47 through in being dragged down into... from the image that you 16:52 see on the billboard or the computer screen 16:54 all the way down to the end. 16:56 This is the area of the brain that is hardwired. 17:00 It's not changeable malleable plastic if you will. 17:03 It's called the hypothalamus. 17:04 This is where the drive center for food, for water, for sex is 17:09 and it's not going anywhere. 17:11 It's not really actually the problem. 17:13 It's part of our designed nature that we have 17:17 that built within us: attract- tiveness to the opposite sex. 17:20 This is part of Adam and Eve... part of God's creation. 17:23 But when the image - let's say the alluring image - 17:26 pops up on front of the eyes 17:28 there are a number of steps that many will take 17:31 down the lust cascade where it goes into sin. 17:35 The first step is actually something else that's hardwired 17:39 into us. It's called the LGN in the brain: 17:41 it's a part of the thalamus in the brain. 17:43 And this is another area that is not very plastic. 17:47 It just automatically sends the visual image to step 2: 17:50 the occipital lobe. 17:52 This is where we make decisions and have control. 17:55 This is the part of the brain at the back of the brain 17:58 where we process images visually. 18:01 Men particularly have a lot going on here when it comes to 18:04 attractive images. 18:06 So this is a critical step. 18:08 Do you hold the image? Do you enhance the activity 18:12 in the occipital lobe by beholding the alluring image? 18:15 By capturing it; grabbing it and pondering it... 18:18 looking a second time. 18:20 'Cause if you do... if you hang out on step 2... 18:22 you're going down the lust cascade 18:24 which is kind of like you've gotten on the on-ramp 18:26 to the highway. You know what I mean? 18:28 If you ever get on the on-ramp and you're: "Oh no! I'm going 18:31 east instead of west! " Well, you're on that on-ramp. 18:34 You don't want to get on the on-ramp. 18:35 You don't want to hang out there with that visual. 18:38 The physiological process begins. 18:40 The heart rate increases and when the heart rate gets to 18:43 100 beats per minute with this process going on 18:46 the prefrontal cortex is shutting down. 18:48 That's self-regulation. That's the will, the self-control. 18:51 And so you're just like high containment walls on this 18:53 highway it's going to be difficult to re-route 18:56 from that point so you want to catch it early. 18:58 Step 3: 19:11 Which again, we're way down the pathway on this now. 19:15 You don't want to go there 'cause this usually just leads 19:17 to step 4 which would be you could say the sexual act 19:20 itself... which enormous quantities of dopamine 19:24 and endogenous opiates as you read. 19:26 In a marital context that's a wonderful and beautiful 19:29 design from God, but when we are pleasure seeking 19:31 and we are hitting the pleasure/reward centers of 19:34 the nucleus accumbens in a way where it's just a quick fix 19:37 this is causing the cingulate cortex of the brain 19:40 and the pleasure centers to fire off unnaturally. 19:43 That's why you heard about an unnatural excitation 19:47 with a morbid... or not a morbid but an unhealthy 19:52 and unholy tone of the brain. 19:54 So after satisfying the carnal desire in the brain the amygdala 19:57 then becomes calm. It had clamored for what it wanted 20:01 and it got what it wanted. 20:02 And then a chemical called norepinephrine comes in. 20:05 Sorry for all the science here. This is like 20:07 that awkward middle school science class 20:09 or whatever but anyway... 20:11 It burns the initial arouser in the memory 20:14 in what's called the salience network. 20:16 This is the emotional memory, and the brain says: 20:18 "That was significant; that was salient; 20:20 that was a psycho- logically important event 20:23 and super pleasurable and I want it to happen again 20:25 and again. " So the pleasure seeking has been laid down 20:29 and it will more likely arise because of the pathway 20:32 that it's gone down. 20:33 So the big question of course is how to stop this lust cascade 20:37 from happening. I was alluding to it at the beginning. 20:39 You stop it before it starts. 20:42 First of all, can we put ourselves in situations... 20:45 avoid putting ourselves in situations 20:48 with media, with watching spectator sports, 20:51 with certain places where you know that there's going to be 20:53 more tempting imagery coming your way? 20:55 Of course. We want to be prudent on how we live our life 20:58 and not live with presumption and going wherever we think 21:00 we want to go. We want to be appropriate 21:03 in the context we place ourselves in. 21:04 But then images will come our way. 21:07 We live in the world... we are not OF the world. 21:09 And we can get a good way away from worldliness but 21:12 there will be occasions where you've gotta gain a victory 21:15 over an image that comes your way. 21:17 So we're going to stop it on that step 2 right there 21:20 immediately when the visual cortex is receiving that. 21:23 In a millisecond. That's really step 1.01. 21:27 I mean, it's like the first step in a way. 21:29 Taking a deep breath is a good way 21:32 to help with the process. 'Cause when we take a deep breath 21:35 there's a nerve that links up into the limbic system 21:38 in the bottom of the brain called the dorsal vagal nerve 21:41 and a deep respiration soothes the nerves. 21:44 I'm quoting from a book called Ministry of Healing there. 21:46 And literally the dorsal vagal nerve will calm 21:49 with a deep breath. I'm not talking about New Age 21:51 meditation. Just good, proper breathing... 21:53 diaphragm breathing. The prefrontal cortex will get 21:56 more oxygenated as the blood in the brain 21:58 is receiving a proper amount of oxygen 22:01 when we breathe properly and that gives us greater 22:03 ability to manage that with the frontal lobe where we gain 22:07 the mastery. Now of course it goes without saying 22:09 on a practical level you don't look a second time, right? 22:12 You say: "I'm going to have the strength of Jesus Christ. 22:15 I'm not going to look. " But hold on... 22:16 That's a challenge. I want everybody right now 22:19 to not think about an elephant. 22:21 You just thought about an elephant, didn't you? 22:23 Stop thinking about an elephant! You're still thinking about 22:25 an elephant, right? You've heard this analogy maybe before. 22:27 But you have to fill the brain WITH something. 22:30 Remember, if the brain can get addicted to something 22:32 the process of recovery from an addiction 22:35 is not so much stopping something. 22:37 It's replacing that with something else. 22:40 So have a habitual thing that goes into your mind. 22:43 When the alluring thing happens you go: "OK, I'm going to go 22:47 to a go-to Scripture song or a Scripture memory that's 22:50 particularly visual or whatever. " Maybe a hymn. 22:53 You know, "Thy Word is a lamp to my feet. " 22:56 And you're imagining the lamp and the feet 22:57 and the precipice on the mountains and the presence 23:01 of God's Word is guiding you on the narrow way. 23:04 Picking something to fill the mind with... 23:06 particularly that is visual. You can go to the 23:08 heavenly throne room and you're in the Most Holy Place 23:11 of the heavenly sanctuary and you say; "Thank you, Jesus, 23:13 that you can blot out my sins" 23:15 in this heavenly judgment day 23:17 that we are in in these last days. 23:19 Or you can also pray for the objectified person 23:24 that's been put in this situation. 23:25 And you could say: "You know, that could be my sister, 23:28 my mother. That's somebody's daughter. " 23:31 It's like this is a person, right? 23:34 And so when you have that dignity given back to that 23:37 instead of: "I'm going to be a user of pornography" it's 23:39 interesting we use the word loser, isn't it? 23:41 "Consumers of pornography. " 23:44 That is not a consumer good... that is a human being. 23:46 Pornographic material we call it. 23:48 Material? No! 23:50 So here's a practical thing from Mind, Character and Personality. 24:41 We CAN bring every thought into captivity 24:45 to the obedience of Jesus Christ. 24:47 And if we want to have a general big-picture plan, 24:50 too, we want to have a healthy lifestyle. 24:52 We want to practice all of those things that bring 24:55 more positive mental health and build a better brain. 24:58 We want the tool to be able to tackle all of the emotional 25:01 and tempting struggles in our lives. 25:03 Practicing gratitude and optimism. You can journal that. 25:07 You can speak praises to God throughout the day. 25:09 Praise God for this and that. 25:11 Having positive social connection. 25:13 Church attendance. Reading books! 25:15 Getting outdoors; dwelling on God's love. 25:18 You dwell on God's love for 12 minutes a day 25:20 and it improves frontal lobe function 25:22 according to research done at the University of Pennsylvania. 25:24 I mentioned exercise. Oh boy! Physical health. 25:28 This is a HUGE one 25:30 but I have to save it for the next particular session 25:33 because I want to close with a wonderful 25:36 rendition of the man lying paralyzed beside the pool 25:41 of Bethesda. Jesus comes to heal him. 25:44 "By sin we have been severed from the life of God. 25:47 Our souls are palsied. 25:49 Of ourselves we are no more capable of living a holy life 25:53 than was the paralyzed man capable of walking. 25:56 Many realize their helplessness. 25:58 They are longing for that spiritual life which will 26:01 bring them into harmony with God and are striving 26:03 to obtain it... but in vain. 26:06 In despair they cry: 'O wretched man that I am! 26:10 Who shall deliver me from this body of death? ' 26:13 Romans 7 verse 24. 26:15 Let these desponding ones lookup. 26:18 Let these struggling ones lookup. 26:21 The man lays there... wants to get into the pool 26:24 where he thinks he'll be healed. 26:25 The Savior is bending over you, the purchase of His blood, 26:29 saying with inexpressible tenderness and pity: 26:33 'Wilt thou be made whole? ' 26:36 He bids you arise in health and peace. 26:38 Do not wait to feel that you are made whole. 26:40 Believe the Savior's words. 26:42 Put your will on the side of Christ. 26:44 And in acting upon His word you will receive strength. 26:47 Whatever may be the evil practice 26:48 the master passion which through long indulgence 26:52 binds both soul and body 26:54 Christ is able and longs to deliver. 26:57 He will impart life to the soul that is dead in trespasses. 27:01 Ephesians 2 verse 1. 27:02 He will set free the captive that is held by weakness 27:05 and misfortune and the chains of sin. 27:08 The sense of sin has poisoned the springs of life 27:10 but Christ says: 'I will take your sins. ' 27:13 He took them at the cross. 'I will give you peace. ' 27:16 'I have bought you with My blood. ' 27:18 'You are Mine. My grace shall strengthen your weakened 27:22 will. Your remorse for sin I will remove. ' 27:25 So when temptations assail you; when care and perplexities 27:28 surround you; when you are ready to yield to despair 27:31 look to Jesus, and the darkness that encompasses you 27:35 will be dispelled by the bright shining of His presence. 27:38 Never feel that Christ is far away... 27:41 He is always near. 27:43 His loving presence surrounds you. 27:46 Seek Him as one who desires to be found by you. 27:49 He desires not only that you touch His garments 27:52 but that you walk with Him in constant communion. " 27:55 And there's the ultimate answer to all our media addictions: 27:58 walking with Jesus as Enoch did. |
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